Colorful flowers

Instructions:

Did you know you can change the color of some flower petals by placing them into colored water? It's an easy experiment to show your kids how a plant pulls up water from a vase and transports it around it's parts through osmosis. What you need:
a vase
food coloring
white daisies or carnations

What to do:
Place flowers with freshly cut stems into a vase of colored water. Watch flower petals slowly change color!

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